In the UK, dentists will be not only to question patients about how often they brush their teeth, but how many sexual partners have had in recent times. In this way, the state plans to fight the whole epidemic of tumors of the oral cavity.
The largest charity in the UK, which has been fighting with cancer, wants dentists now thoroughly interested in the sex lives of their patients. An increasing number of Britons dying at a young age from oral cancer . It is a sad number is constantly increasing, and experts are already beginning to sound the alarm.
Unprotected sex is one of the risk factors oral cancer Because it is often caused by human papillomavirus. Among other factors, smoking and alcohol abuse. Obviously, the dentist will have to talk with their patients, and about these bad habits.
"We want them to know more about the risk factors, to ask the right questions - the representative of Cancer Research UK Hazel Nunn. - Dentists should be asking patients about smoking and habits. Of course, when it does not necessarily give a lecture about healthy lifestyles but to inform people about what they should be afraid of, it is imperative. If the dentist knows that the patient smokes 50 cigarettes a day and drank a lot more established daily requirement, then such a patient should be examined much more carefully it is for the early diagnosis of tumors " .
For cancer of the oral cavity include tumors of the lips, tongue, the cheeks, gums, palate and throat. It is expected that in the UK alone over the next two decades, mortality from these tumors to grow by 22%.
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